Find out in this report how the two Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
We have automated complete order-to-cash processes for multiple customers, saving over 90 million dollars.
The return is faster since development efforts are minimized, allowing for quicker integration delivery.
It also plays a vital role in revenue calculations, net asset valuations, and other key factors that support customer data and investment data pipelines.
The tech support is very good, offering immediate responses and chat options.
Seamlessly meeting SLAs and providing excellent responses to challenges and issues related to interface and data connectivity.
We receive service that is more than adequate, even exceptional.
I like the technical support provided by Informatica.
I have occasionally needed to communicate with the technical support of Informatica PowerCenter, especially when raising cases for complex mappings and performance optimization to identify bottlenecks in transformations.
The reason we wanted to use our own Kubernetes cluster was to do automatic scaling for utilized resources, allowing us to save.
We have built approximately 1,100 interfaces for one customer, which is a significant achievement.
In the cloud, scaling up and down becomes easy when working with cloud providers.
For scalability, I would rate Informatica PowerCenter between eight to nine.
Informatica PowerCenter is stable and can scale well.
The product is very stable with very few issues encountered in production.
The ETL aspect of Boomi iPaaS is not mature enough at the moment.
The integration landscape has become complex, and having a data strategy with unified data models would make integration easier for any platform, including Boomi.
A significant area for improvement is version control.
With Informatica PowerCenter, I am looking for an AI interface that looks at the underlying data model of the databases and the metadata of the tables, allowing the developer to provide instructions on what data sources to connect to and how to apply or create Transformations.
Informatica Cloud and its support becomes quite expensive for the organization compared to peers such as SnapLogic or Netezza, which offer lower pricing.
Utilizing more stored procedures from Oracle databases in an easy way would significantly boost performance.
The pricing for Boomi iPaaS is reasonable, costing around $6,000 per year.
Companies often misunderstand ROI, seeing it as high, yet it equates to one or two full-time staff costs, addressing many needs.
The price of Informatica PowerCenter is high, especially for small and medium-sized businesses.
I find that the pricing and licensing for Informatica PowerCenter align with its quality.
It automates the creation and population of a data warehouse, reducing the need to write SQL scripts and procedures.
The integrations and API management are particularly beneficial.
When developers learn how to use it, they become productive sooner.
The system supports real-time integration, which is essential for many of my tasks.
The functions in Informatica PowerCenter that I have found most valuable are the way it manages the volume of data, the push down optimization, and the performance aspects of it, mostly related to parallelism techniques.
The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter that I have found so far include transformations, the ease of connectivity with different source systems, and the parameter files.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Boomi iPaaS | 12.5% |
| Microsoft Azure Logic Apps | 12.4% |
| MuleSoft Anypoint Platform | 10.4% |
| Other | 64.7% |
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Informatica PowerCenter | 6.0% |
| SSIS | 5.7% |
| Azure Data Factory | 5.2% |
| Other | 83.1% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 9 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 4 |
| Large Enterprise | 15 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 15 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 10 |
| Large Enterprise | 72 |
The Boomi AtomSphere integration platform as a service (iPaaS) supports all your application integration processes – between cloud platforms, software-as-a-service applications, and on-premises systems. Your entire team has online access to a powerful range of integration and data management capabilities, that can be realized in a fraction of the time of legacy middleware technologies.
Informatica PowerCenter is a data integration and data visualization tool. The solution works as an enterprise data integration platform that helps organizations access, transform, and integrate data from various systems. The product is designed to support companies in the full cycle of a project, from its initial rollout to critical deployments. Informatica PowerCenter allows developers and analysts to collaborate while accelerating the work process to deploy projects within days instead of months.
The Advanced edition of the product provides an additional real-time engine which allows companies to have always-on enterprise data integration. This ensures seamless collaboration and increment of data lineage visibility and impacts analysis.
The Premium edition of the solution offers an early warning system that detects unexpected behaviors or incorrect utilization of resources in the workflows and alerts companies in the case that these occur. This version of the product also offers automatic data validation, which ensures data accuracy and reduces testing time and expenditure of resources for by up to 90%.
Informatica PowerCenter Features
The product provides users with various features which allow them to execute data integration initiatives such as analytics, data warehousing, data governance, consolidation, and application migration. The features of the solution include:
Informatica PowerCenter Benefits
The benefits of using Informatica PowerCenter include:
Reviews from Real Users
Yahya T., a developer and architect at L'Oreal, says the product is stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast.
Mohamed E., a senior manager for Data management and data governance at a tech company, says PowerCenter is stable, mature, and offers flexibility in building the pipeline and has a drag-and-drop mode because it's GUI-based; technical support is brilliant.
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